Department of Homeland Security: Continued Actions Needed to Improve Quality of Border Security Metrics Reporting
What GAO Found The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (2017 NDAA) requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an annual report containing 43 specific metrics to measure the effectiveness of border security. DHS reported on 40 of these metrics in its 2023 Border Security Metrics Report, which it submitted in January 2025. These 40 metrics included two that DHS first included in its 2022 report and one that it first included in its 2023 report. Of the 40 metrics, 21 generally corresponded with their 2017 NDAA definitions, while 19—including the three additional metrics—differed in scope or calculation. GAO previously reviewed DHS's Border Security Metric.
Reported by Maria LopezDepartment of Homeland Security: Continued Actions Needed to Improve Quality of Border Security Metrics Reporting.
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What GAO Found The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (2017 NDAA) requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an annual report containing 43 specific metrics to measure the effectiveness of border security.
DHS reported on 40 of these metrics in its 2023 Border Security Metrics Report, which it submitted in January 2025.
These 40 metrics included two that DHS first included in its 2022 report and one that it first included in its 2023 report.
Of the 40 metrics, 21 generally corresponded with their 2017 NDAA definitions, while 19—including the three additional metrics—differed in scope or calculation.
GAO previously reviewed DHS's Border Security Metric…
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